I wrote up these notes about how I recently installed Bering-uClibc-2.0rc2 on a Soekris net4501, a popular single-board pc that has a serial console and compact flash slot, but no floppy.
http://www.telltronics.org/software/Bering/BeringCross.html I hope somebody might find this useful. quoting a little for background: This page describes my experiences bringing up the Leaf ... using a "cross-configuration" process that I haven't seen described in the Bering user guides yet. What do I mean "cross-configuration?" By analogy with "cross-compiling" I mean that most configuration and setup is done on a desktop host computer, to create a bootable compact-flash card that starts and runs exactly the way you want with minimal intervention on the target computer's console. This is in contrast to LEAF's usual installation and configuration process, where the packages and configuration are modified on the running target system and then saved back to the boot media. The net4501 has no floppy interface, so all of the Bering install documents that start out saying "boot from the floppy" are useless there. While the examples here are oriented towards the Soekris net4501 target, others may find them useful to. Running Leaf/Bering on any system with a serial console and removable IDE boot media will need very similar steps. Beyond that, the general cross-configuration process using a desktop host may be applicable to any Leaf or Bering installation, even one that uses a floppy or PXE boot process. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
